Hossein Rezazadeh is maybe the best of the modern era. But I wouldn't put him on this list anyway. I would put Leonid Taranenko way before him. Leonid Taranenko singlehandly realized the greatest feat of strength in the history of humanity. LEONID TARANENKO CLEAN-AND-JERKED 266.0 KG (585.2 LBS) OVERHEAD 25 YEARS AGO!!!

Hossein Rezazadeh never succeded at bested the all-time records of 25 years ago. The best IWF marks of 216.0 kg (475.2 lbs) Snatch (Antonio Krastev, 1987), 266.0 kg (585.2 lbs) Clean and Jerk (Leonid Taranenko, 1988), and 475.0 kg (1045 lbs) Total (Taranenko, 1988). Unfortunately, Krastev and Taranenko were unfairly screwed out of their world records with the restructuration of weight classes. But these weights still remain as the heaviest weights ever lifted.

Leonid Taranenko (born June 13, 1956, Soviet Union) all-time heaviest Olympic weightlifting Total 475.0 kg (1045 lbs) done in 1988. Taranenko lifted 476.0 kg in the total, but for the competition results, the weight was normalized to the standard interval of 2.5 kg. Taranenko was screwed another time!?!